Additional Name(s): مەمەت سالىھ
Gender: Male
Perpetrator: China
Ethnic Group: Uyghur
Religion or Belief: Muslim – Unspecified/Other
Reports of Torture: No
Reports of Medical Neglect: No
Date of Detainment: January//2018
Current Status: Not Released
Religious Leader: No
Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment
Reason for Persecution: Ethnoreligious Identity Religious Activity
Nature of Charges: Unknown
Memet Salih is detained for his religious activity and ethnoreligious identity.
In 2017, public security officials in Urumqi Municipality, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) detained Salih in relation to unspecified religious practices. His wife, Qelbinur Tohti, was detained the year before in relation to her performance of religious rites at funerals and refusal to comply with official demands to change her three children’s names. Salih's arrest came amid mass detentions of ethnic minorities in XUAR.
Other members of Salih's family, including two sisters-in-law, have also been subjected to detention.